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, defensiveness. so, you know, sometimes that's what happens in the classroom, unfortunately. because i -- >> i was going to say, professor gibney. absolutely, right? sometimes, particularly when we're trying to foster conversations that young people are not used to having, on any of a variety of topics, but race can be one of the key ones, defensiveness is one part of it, which is part of why it always falls on us to do the work of trying to make these classrooms sites of democratic deliberations that are useful. so when you have had success, when you have had students open up and be willing to do that kind of conversation, what has been the key difference km wh? what makes a student more willing to have that type of conversation? >> i think a lot of it has to do with the composition of the classroom as well. i teach, as you said, minneapolis community and technical college. it's an urban, two-year community college, downtown minneapolis. our students are phenomenal, they're fantastic. majority worki
, defensiveness. so, you know, sometimes that's what happens in the classroom, unfortunately. because i -- >> i was going to say, professor gibney. absolutely, right? sometimes, particularly when we're trying to foster conversations that young people are not used to having, on any of a variety of topics, but race can be one of the key ones, defensiveness is one part of it, which is part of why it always falls on us to do the work of trying to make these classrooms sites of democratic...
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so, yeah, i was kind of upset. >> but being upset is not a good enough defense to keep culbertson out of ad seg. >> the board finds you guilty. i think i told you last time you came through with another disrespect, i was going to make that a class "b." i'm going to give you 20 days to serve. >> that's [ bleep ] up. >> where are you going? you can't go nowhere. sit down, ms. culbertson. >> i think given sandra's nature and given everything we had seen, we were all anticipating some kind of crazy reaction from her. >> instead, culbertson put on a brave face before going to segregation. >> it sucks, but you know what? they'll never know it because i'll ride the hell out of it. i think it might be the problem, they ain't got me down yet. almost. >>> up next -- >> i believe that some people should be stabbed. >> an inmate known for trouble finds a soft spot for one of our producers. >> i love her. i do. i swear to god. >>> come on! >> prior to meeting tim duncan, we were told he was a hard core inmate who lived by his own rules at one of the most hard core prisons we had ever visited. >> i
so, yeah, i was kind of upset. >> but being upset is not a good enough defense to keep culbertson out of ad seg. >> the board finds you guilty. i think i told you last time you came through with another disrespect, i was going to make that a class "b." i'm going to give you 20 days to serve. >> that's [ bleep ] up. >> where are you going? you can't go nowhere. sit down, ms. culbertson. >> i think given sandra's nature and given everything we had seen, we...
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i remember bob gates, my former secretary of defense wonderful public servant, when i first came in i asked him so bob you got any advice for me. he said mr. president, just understand you've got a lot of people working for you. somebody somewhere at this very moment is screwing something up. and that's true. and so i have to consistently push on every cabinet secretary on every single agency how can we do things better? and we can do things better. part is we need to reorganize the government which was designed primarily in 1935 or '45. we could consolidate agencies. we've got to do a better job buying information technologies. how we make ourselves more customer friendly. those are all things that we can improve. but the upshot is the government still does a lot of good. the last point i'll make on this is we've had a politics, frankly, the entire republican party brand since ronald reagan has been government's the problem. and if you day after day, week after week, election after election are running on that platform, and that permeates our culture and it's picked up by ordinary ci
i remember bob gates, my former secretary of defense wonderful public servant, when i first came in i asked him so bob you got any advice for me. he said mr. president, just understand you've got a lot of people working for you. somebody somewhere at this very moment is screwing something up. and that's true. and so i have to consistently push on every cabinet secretary on every single agency how can we do things better? and we can do things better. part is we need to reorganize the government...
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like a highway bill or defense bill or farm bill or a budget. >> let me end by addressing the elephant in the room. the seeming inability to get anything done in washington these days. >> i mean, what do we need a budget for? clearly not for highways, defense or food. >> congressional republicans are learning how to talk to women and how to run against women. >> trying to get them to be a little more sensitive. >> our message was weak. our ground game was insufficient. we weren't inclusive. >> i went to a number of women's groups and said, can you help us find folks? they brought us whole binders full of women. >> i believe diversity is an old, old wooden ship that was used during the civil war era. >> so there's no one solution. there's a long list of them. >> i tried to get him to be a little more sensitive. >> they've got to be embarrassed. >> you stay classy, san diego. >> and thanks for stopping by. >> but, mainly, stay classy. >>> so team obama needed to reboot the rollout of the affordable care act. and according to their own post-election autopsy, the gop just needed to reboot
like a highway bill or defense bill or farm bill or a budget. >> let me end by addressing the elephant in the room. the seeming inability to get anything done in washington these days. >> i mean, what do we need a budget for? clearly not for highways, defense or food. >> congressional republicans are learning how to talk to women and how to run against women. >> trying to get them to be a little more sensitive. >> our message was weak. our ground game was...
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drake testified in court that he killed the man in self-defense. >> i didn't really intend to kill him so much. he had my friends in his house and wasn't letting them go, so i went back to get them, and when i went in, he attacked me, so i shot him. >> drake shot his victim five times with the final shot fired through the back of his head. to make matters worse for drake, he faced a jury just as the country was still trying to make sense of the columbine school shootings. >> i went to trial with columbine had already happened like five months before that, and there's quite a few similarities between my case and that. like i was wearing a trench coat. my crime occurred in april. their crime occurred in april. i was 17, they were 17. >> and your sentence? >> i got life without parole. >> so how does a 17-year-old deal with that? >> i cried. and after that just kind of coped. >> how did you survive when you came in as an 18-year-old? >> when i was in county jail, a lot of old-timers told me, okay, when you get there, try to avoid anything having to do with gangs, tattoos, gambling. that's
drake testified in court that he killed the man in self-defense. >> i didn't really intend to kill him so much. he had my friends in his house and wasn't letting them go, so i went back to get them, and when i went in, he attacked me, so i shot him. >> drake shot his victim five times with the final shot fired through the back of his head. to make matters worse for drake, he faced a jury just as the country was still trying to make sense of the columbine school shootings. >> i...
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. >> the court therefore sustains the defense's objection. >> it doesn't take long for the judge to confirm his fears much. >> he's removed from the cell he's in. put in an isolation ward. because people are saying you put seminal fluids in foods that you are sharing with other inmates. if it's not true, why do you not have the ability to say, it's not true, i'm kidding award, funny. or at least take whatever steps he is capable of taking to stop this problem can be most easily analyzed. >> he will now be sentenced on two charges. two charges to disclose hiv because he had oral and anal sex with his partner. >> not less than 56 months nor more than seven years. on counts one and two, the defendant will serve not less than 24 months nor more than four years these will run con r concurrent concurrently. >> he's sentenced 4 1/2 to 7 years. >> in addition, the defendant shall be required to comply with the sex offender's act. having presiding over the case that the defendant is unwilling or incapable of following the requirements of the law and there is simply not any evidence to suggest that h
. >> the court therefore sustains the defense's objection. >> it doesn't take long for the judge to confirm his fears much. >> he's removed from the cell he's in. put in an isolation ward. because people are saying you put seminal fluids in foods that you are sharing with other inmates. if it's not true, why do you not have the ability to say, it's not true, i'm kidding award, funny. or at least take whatever steps he is capable of taking to stop this problem can be most...
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. >> the court therefore sustains the -- the defense objection. >> it doesn't take long for the judge to affirm merithew's fear es. >> removed from the cell he's in. put in an isolation ward, for his own safety. because people are saying you put seminal fluids in the foods you are sharing with other inmates, that you have the ability to have in your cell, only because of your medical condition. if it's not true, why doesn't mr. merithew then have the absolute ability to say it's not true. i'm just kidding around, ha, ha, aren't i funny, or words to that effect and at least takes whatever affirmative steps he is capable of taking to stop this problem? really, it can be most analogized it's like shouting fire in a crowded theater. >> merithew will be sentenced op three charges. two charges of not disclosing he had hiv for having oral and anal sex and use of a sandwich to commit a crime. >> and count three, use of a computer for not less than 56 months, no more than seven years, credit for 113 days served previously. on counts one and two the defendant will serve not less than 24 months,
. >> the court therefore sustains the -- the defense objection. >> it doesn't take long for the judge to affirm merithew's fear es. >> removed from the cell he's in. put in an isolation ward, for his own safety. because people are saying you put seminal fluids in the foods you are sharing with other inmates, that you have the ability to have in your cell, only because of your medical condition. if it's not true, why doesn't mr. merithew then have the absolute ability to say...
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. >> she's assisted in her defense by an inmate advocate. >> this is so embarrassing. >> how do you plead? >> not guilty. >> the hearing quickly turns to the evidence. and whether the sum of their parts equals a whole. >> they're not constructed together. the ace bandages were for my ankles. the glove was to clean my toilet. trash bags we get every day and the tampons i get at the commissary. >> and what about the highlighter? >> i got that from field day. >> what were you doing with a highlighter in the tampon? >> i had no idea it was in there. >> was it like this when you -- >> the way that the body of this writeup is, it's making it sound like mr. roundtree found an assembled sex toy. i'm asking for a dismissal on this. >> the hearings officer, sergeant gooch, places a call to the officer who wrote the disciplinary report. >> officer roundtree, you confiscated the items that she had, the highlighter and things of that? >> right. >> okay. when you collected the evidence on this, was this intact? >> the first time we saw her it was in tact. when we went back in there, the rubber glove wa
. >> she's assisted in her defense by an inmate advocate. >> this is so embarrassing. >> how do you plead? >> not guilty. >> the hearing quickly turns to the evidence. and whether the sum of their parts equals a whole. >> they're not constructed together. the ace bandages were for my ankles. the glove was to clean my toilet. trash bags we get every day and the tampons i get at the commissary. >> and what about the highlighter? >> i got that from...
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they failed to make any headway on china's new hair defense zone. that's been fueling a lot of tension in the region. do you think this is a powder keg in the region? >> i'm very concerned about it. the maritime security issues are critically important, not just to the countries of that region, but to all country, including the united states. these are maritime lanes that we depend on greatly for international commerce. there's been disputes over a long period of time as to the -- as to which country has sovereignty over these islands. what china did by making this unilateral declaration was certainly harmful to the stability of that region. >> okay. let's go back to the home front, sir. last week the president threw his support behind the senate's minimum wage bill. where do you put its chances of getting through the house? >> well, it's going to be a challenge to get anything through the house in this environment. they've been difficult to get through. i think it's important we recognize that working families should have a decent wage and raising
they failed to make any headway on china's new hair defense zone. that's been fueling a lot of tension in the region. do you think this is a powder keg in the region? >> i'm very concerned about it. the maritime security issues are critically important, not just to the countries of that region, but to all country, including the united states. these are maritime lanes that we depend on greatly for international commerce. there's been disputes over a long period of time as to the -- as to...